Re: [Boost-users] Boost with Eclipse and MinGW

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost with Eclipse and MinGW
From: Del (delmyers.cs_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-09 12:05:07

I ran into some problems recently with linking boost with minGW. The problem 
that I had was with linking static libraries: DLL's worked fine. It turns out 
that the problem was due to the boost builder. When it built all of my 
libraries, I believe that it recognized minGW as a Windows compiler/linker and 
named all libraries with a .lib extension, but minGW is a port of GNU C/C++ and 
expects .a libraries. What I had to do was go into my lib directory and rename 
all the .lib files to .a. Hope this helps.

Del

Bassem Bouguerra wrote:
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> 
> Hi- Running the simple code with Boost Header libraries works perfectly 
> fine. 
> If I try to use any compiled library, then I run to hell. I am trying to 
> use the thread library and I keep getting compiling errors like:
> undefined reference to boost::thread::!thread()
> 
> I installed the package and selected VS8 even though, I am using Eclipse 
> and I added the "C:\Program Files (x86)\boost\boost_1_38\lib" to the 
> linker search libraries paths.
> 
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